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prof.dr. H.E. Vonkeman (Harald)

Honorary Professor
BMS-HIB-PGT
Cubicus B131B
h.e.vonkeman@utwente.nl
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CHAIR PATIENT CENTERED HEALTH TECHNOLOGY

My aim is to advance research that facilitates a transition of care, in which healthcare supported by technology is increasingly being delivered at a distance from healthcare institutions, in a way that is both meaningful to patients and has added value to society. To achieve this, I intend to further develop a platform and network that facilitates collaboration between patients, scientists, medical specialists, primary care professionals and tech companies, that stimulates development of innovative health technologies and accelerates access to evidence-based technological innovations in healthcare.

As a physician, my main aim has been to enhance quality of life of patients living with chronic rheumatic diseases. Although this work has significantly improved long term outcomes of patients, I have found that there are often striking discrepancies in perceptions of disease between patients and caregivers. Much of my research has been on measuring and using patients’ perspectives as goals of treatment, i.e., outcomes that are relevant to patients; such as pain, fatigue, physical function and participation. These outcomes are often multidimensional and complex, difficult to measure and even harder to use in treatment strategies. In recent years this work has branched out to the development and implementation of Value Based Health Care. 

The role of Health Technology has become increasingly important in the way professionals diagnose, treat and monitor patients, in healthcare institutions and increasingly also at home, as well as for patients themselves. Projects aimed at using innovative technology to measure and improve outcomes involve telemonitoring of chronic diseases, computer adaptive tests, pain threshold measurement and therapeutic use of virtual reality.

As a board member of the Dutch Society for Rheumatology (NVR), charged with the portfolio Training & Education, and as director of the MST Rheumatology Fellowship, I endeavor to include innovative health technology in future medical intern- and fellowships of physicians and nurses.

Expertise

  • Medicine and Dentistry

    • Patient
    • Rheumatoid Arthritis
    • Inpatient
    • Therapeutic Procedure
    • Disease Activity
    • Pain
    • Adverse Drug Reaction
    • COVID-19

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Ancillary activities

  • Medisch Spectrum TwenteMedical Specialist

Publications

2024

Affect and post-COVID-19 symptoms in daily life: An exploratory experience sampling study (2024)PLoS ONE, 19(10), e0295217. Article e0295217. Schaap, G., Wensink, M., Doggen, C. J. M., van der Palen, J., Vonkeman, H. E. & Bode, C.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0295217One-year trajectories of physical and mental health-related quality of life, fatigue and dyspnoea in COVID-19 survivors (2024)Quality of life research (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Schaap, G., Davelaar, J. F., Klooster, P. M. t., Doggen, C. J. M., van der Palen, J., Bode, C. & Vonkeman, H. E.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-024-03812-yQuantification of longitudinal patient-reported burden of adverse drug reactions attributed to the use of TNF-α inhibitors in inflammatory rheumatic diseases: an observational prospective cohort study (2024)Expert opinion on drug safety (E-pub ahead of print/First online). König, B. H., Gosselt, H. R., van Lint, J. A., Kosse, L. J., van den Bemt, B. J. F., ten Klooster, P. M., Vonkeman, H. E. & Jessurun, N. T.https://doi.org/10.1080/14740338.2024.2383697The burden of adverse drug reactions reported by patients in the Dutch ADR monitor: a proof of concept (2024)Expert opinion on drug safety (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Quik, J. M., Gosselt, H. R., van Lint, J. A., Kosse, L. J., ten Klooster, P. M., Vonkeman, H. E., van den Bemt, B. J. F. & Jessurun, N. T.https://doi.org/10.1080/14740338.2024.2383707Multimodal Imaging of Structural Damage and Inflammation in Psoriatic Arthritis: A comparison of DMARD-Naive and DMARD-Failure Patients (2024)Rheumatology (Accepted/In press). Renkli, N. Ö., Kleinrensink, N. J., Spierings, J., Mastbergen, S., Vonkeman, H. e., Mooij, S. C., Schipper, L., Herman, A., ten Katen, I., Nap, F. J., Hol, M. E., de Jong, P. A., Jansen, M. P. & Foppen, W.https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keae450Characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 patients admitted to hospital with and without respiratory symptoms (2024)Heliyon, 10(10). Article e29591. Citarella, B. W., Kartsonaki, C., Ibáñez-Prada, E. D., Gonçalves, B. P., Baruch, J., Escher, M., Pritchard, M. G., Wei, J., Philippy, F., Dagens, A., Hall, M., Lee, J., Kutsogiannis, D. J., Wils, E. J., Fernandes, M. A., Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan, B. K., Panda, P. K., Martin-Loeches, I., Ohshimo, S., … Vonkeman, H.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e29591Increased vascular inflammation on PET/CT in psoriatic arthritis patients in comparison with controls (2024)RMD Open, 10(1). Article e003547. Kleinrensink, N. J., Spierings, J., Vonkeman, H. E., Seddiqi, N., Herman, A., Suijkerbuijk, K. P. M., Heijstek, M. W., Jansen, M. P., de Jong, P. A. & Foppen, W.https://doi.org/10.1136/rmdopen-2023-003547What benefit-risk trade-offs are acceptable to rheumatoid arthritis patients during treatment selection? Evidence from a multicountry choice experiment (2024)RMD Open, 10(1). Article e003311. Alten, R., Nieto-Gonzalez, J. C., Jacques, P., Montecucco, C., Moots, R., Radner, H., Vonkeman, H. E., Heidenreich, S., Whichello, C., Krucien, N. & Van Beneden, K.https://doi.org/10.1136/rmdopen-2023-003311Limited content overlap between commonly used self-report instruments for central (pain) sensitization in rheumatology (2024)Rheumatology advances in practice, 8(3). Article rkae108. ten Klooster, P. M., Simoes, J. P. & Vonkeman, H. E.https://doi.org/10.1093/rap/rkae108

2023

The Relationship between Nociceptive Detection Thresholds and Pressure-and Electrical Pain Thresholds: An Explorative Study in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients (2023)In 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Sydney, Australia (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS). IEEE. Jansen, N., Berfelo, T., Vonkeman, H. E., ten Klooster, P. M., van den Berg, B., Krabbenbos, I. P. & Buitenweg, J. R.https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC40787.2023.10340755

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Courses academic year 2023/2024

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